At Alpha Modalities, we design and manufacture patient slings with safety and comfort in mind. Because we offer both loop and chip attachment options, all of our slings are compatible with all North American ceiling and floor lift systems. We offer Washable, Wipeable, and Single Patient Use slings. All of our slings are manufactured in the USA.
Hillrom is a global medical technology leader whose 10,000 employees have a single purpose: enhancing outcomes for patients and their caregivers by advancing connected care. Around the world, our innovations touch over 7 million patients each day. They help enable earlier diagnosis and treatment, optimize surgical efficiency and accelerate patient recovery while simplifying clinical communication and shifting care closer to home. We make these outcomes possible through connected smart beds, patient lifts, patient assessment and monitoring technologies, caregiver collaboration tools, respiratory care devices, advanced operating room equipment and more, delivering actionable, real-time insights at the point of care.
Designing, implementing and sustaining an integrated mobility program can be challenging. Hill-Rom provides a consultative approach to ensure your safe patient handling and mobility program addresses your unique challenges. Together, we will create a pathway designed to help protect patients while mobilizing earlier and often.
We provide customized consulting to support new and existing Safe Patient Handling and Mobility practices, integration into fall prevention, early mobility, bariatric care, injury reduction, and adoption of the Bedside Mobility Assessment Tool.
I have over 12 years of dedicated safe patient handling and mobility experience with an emphasis to providing early and progressive mobility for my patients through an interdisciplinary collaboration with SPHM practices. I am a certified SPHM professional through the Association of Safe Patient Handling Professionals. I have served on the ASPHP Board of Directors 2013-2016 and currently chair the Examination Committee and sit on the Certification Executive Committee for the advancement of SPHM professional credentialing. I am passionate about the importance of mobilizing patients early and often within a safe and effective manner, and provide solutions to healthcare providers to achieve positive clinical, safety and financial outcomes.
Hill-Rom is a leading worldwide manufacturer and provider of medical technologies and related services for the health care industry, including patient support systems, safe mobility and handling solutions, non-invasive therapeutic products, and more. Hill-Rom’s comprehensive product and service offerings are used by health care providers across the health care continuum and around the world in hospitals, extended care facilities and home care settings to enhance the safety and quality of patient care. Everyday there are missed opportunities to mobilize patients, resulting in missed opportunities to enhance outcomes: clinically, financially, and operationally. Hill-Rom can help unlock opportunities with: proven approaches with Hill-Rom clinical programs, sustainable results through practice change, and unmatched support leveraging all that Hill-Rom has to offer. Hill-Rom’s people, products and programs work towards one mission: Every day, around the world, we enhance outcomes for patients and their caregivers. Visit www.hill-rom.com for more information.
Guldmann doesn’t just provide you with equipment that makes your job easier. You also get a complete solution designed to match your current needs as well as being well-aligned with the functionality requirements of tomorrow – consistently focused on providing more time for the actual care assignments at the heart of your operations We are specialists in creating more “time to care” in conjunction with lifting and moving requirements across the full spectrum of healthcare environments.
But Guldmann solutions are much more than just effective, non-strenuous ways to lift and move people from A to B.
Our products are designed to be combined, varied and used in a wide range of different ways, paving the way to uniquely effective solutions for tackling virtually all lifting and moving needs. This makes Guldmann solutions a dependable, durable and financially advantageous investment.
Handicare offers safe patient handling solutions for caregivers including their patients and residents, we help health care facilities reduce the risk of injury to staff and clients. Our solutions include ceiling lifts, slings, floor lifts, bathing solutions, and repositioning aids. Additionally, we offer full turnkey ceiling installation management, field service to maintain your products, and clinical education to ensure staff has the knowledge and skills to work safely. At Handicare we strive to make everyday life easier for caregivers by providing the solutions, knowledge, and support to keep you and your facility safe
HoverTech International is the world leader in air-assisted patient handling technologies. Through a complete line of quality patient transfer, repositioning and handling products, HoverTech is focused solely on the safety of the caregiver and patient. The comprehensive line of devices includes disposable and reusable products to meet the budget, patient care and infection control needs of the facility. Our lateral transfer products also address the growing bariatric population with a weight limit of 1,200 lbs.
Additionally, HoverTech offers the HELP℠ (Healthcare Ergonomic Lifting Program) Program that includes comprehensive risk analysis, policies and procedures development, training, and integration solutions to achieve the goals of safe patient handling.
IndeeLift’s patented line of patient-handling, human lifts are unlike any other. This family of products has been designed to enable safe patient handling in all care environments. These lifts provide self or assisted operation for individuals and their care providers who have mobility challenges and are unable to get up from a seated position or the floor without assistance. The Floor-to-Stand (FTS) lift for healthcare professionals can be used to lift a person from a bed, wheelchair, commode, exam table, the floor, or any other place a user may be seated and need assistance to get to a standing position. It is also configurable to safely raise the patient from a standing position on the floor to assist in getting onto an exam or x-ray table along with other places that an injured, recovering or mobility challenged patient may need to access.
Jamar Health Products produces and sells PATRAN® slide sheets for use with more than 25 safe patient-handling and mobility tasks. Each PATRAN slide sheet can be used up to 50 times with a single patient.
PATRAN slides sheets reduce caregiver and patient injuries, provide patient comfort, and promote mobility and infection control. Use them anywhere a caregiver moves patients.
PATRAN slide sheets are for use by health care professionals. Made in the USA, PATRAN slide sheets are registered with the Food and Drug Administration. PATRAN slide sheets ae latex-free, static resistant, MR safe, radiolucent and recyclable.
A certified women-owned small business, Jamar holds a Department of Veterans Affairs contract with its products listed in the Federal Supply Schedule. Jamar is a proud Association of Safe Patient Handling Professionals sponsor. Several staff members are ASPHP members and Jamar President Stefanie Scott has earned certification through the organization.
CEGA is a certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE # WS04707). We proudly design, manufacture, and distribute patient repositioning and skin protection products for hospital and acute care markets.
The US obesity epidemic continues to worsen. Traditional patient moving equipment was designed in an era where patients were significantly smaller. With patient size growing and nurses average age increasing and labor shortages, healthcare workplace injuries continue to be a concern. CEGA Innovations expertise and solutions can help.
We consult with you to evaluate your safe patient handling needs for laterally transferring patients. A determination is made where new forms of air lateral transfer devices can alleviate injury risk to staff and to patients. The goal is to provide a safer method for staff to use and create better outcomes for patients by reducing the risks of skin injuries, bleeding, and infection with REMUV’s patented SmartSeam™.
If our transfer mats are a positive fit for your facility, you’ll find our mats cost competitive and indirect savings opportunities by avoiding staff injuries. We will work with your Clinical Directors and Supply Chain Managers to determine whether volume purchasing through our direct sourcing division, or through traditional supplier platforms, is best for your organization.
Safety National® is a multi-line specialty insurance carrier that offers risk solutions for large commercial and public entity clients, insuring over 3 million U.S. healthcare workers. The company serves as an ally to policyholders, providing complimentary risk management resources to help improve safety and compliance programs.
Seneca Devices specializes in complete patient repositioning solutions using pneumatics to single-handedly, boost, turn and offload patients at the push of a button. A quick and easy install of the mattress overlay and control unit enables us to retrofit existing hospital beds with a modern technology that streamlines Q2 protocols, alleviates the need for calling additional clinical staff and takes the strain off of the caregiver.
Susan Gallagher has been serving organizations worldwide for more than 2 decades as a recognized expert in safety, outcomes and communication with an emphasis on bariatrics, skin and wound care, safe patient handling and mobility, and risk and loss control. She is currently President of ASPHP, serves as Associate Editor for Workplace Health and Safety, and is author of the ANA Implementation Guide to the SPHM Interprofessional Standards and her most current book, Bariatric Safe Patient Handling and Mobility. Her research has been groundbreaking in pioneering better ways to provide a systems approach to complex situations. Her services included but not limited to Bariatric, SPHM Training, Customer Service Excellence, Gap Analysis: Bariatric, SPHM (pediatric, LTC/nursing home, acute care).Contact Dr. Gallagher at: 626-733-6242 or susangallagher@hotmail.com.
2019 marks twenty years of The Celebration Institute providing training and support worldwide to professional organizations, hospital associations, healthcare facilities, legal professionals, vendor providers, and research institutions. For more information, please visit our website at www.thecelebrationinstitute.org.
VANCARE has been recognized as a leading manufacturer of ceiling and mobile floor lifts in the US for over 25 years. With our innovative products and exceptional commitment to service, Vancare is poised for robust growth. We are committed to providing the world’s best technologies and services for Safe Patient Handling professionals.